INDIAN PICTURES DRAWN WITH PEN AND PENCIL

About the book:-India together with Ceylon, stretches two thousand miles from the Himalayas southwards into the ocean; and its extreme width, measured across its northern boundary, is nineteen hundred miles. It is as large as Europe: less Russia. Physically it divides itself into three parts: (i) the Himalayas, "the abode of snow," as the name means, where are the treasures of the rain, and the bracing mountain air, forming a double mountain wall against the north; (2) the River Plains, with the Brahmaputra in the east, the Indus in the west, and the mighty Ganges," Mother Ganga" adored by the people, across the centre ; (3) the three-sided table land of the Deccan, separated from the river plains by the Vindhya mountains, with the Eastern and Western Ghats running along either coast and meeting at Cape Comorin. Thus, this vast country is naturally isolated, with the sea on either side, the Himalayan range scimitar like across the north, its spurs in the east making a natural wall, and the Sulaiman range along the Indus in the west, forming a boundary equally secure.